Eino Rahja

Eino Rahja (1885-1936) was a leader of the Finnish Red Guards during the Finnish Civil War in 1918.

Biography
Eino Rahja was born in 1885 in Kronstadt on Kotlin Island in the Gulf of Finland, a part of the Russian Empire at the time of his birth. Rahja joined the Bolsheviks in 1903, and he organized Vladimir Lenin's escape to Finland during the Russian Revolution. Rahja joined the Finnish Red Guards during the Finnish Civil War, and after the Reds lost the war, he became an army corps commander in the Soviet Union's Red Army in Russia. In 1927, he was expelled from the Communist Party of Finland, and he was welcomed to the USSR as a friend of Grigory Zinoviev. He died in 1936.